Earlier this month, I wrapped up my “Tour de Year One CCDC Host Sites” with visits to Rock County Historical Society in Janesville, Outagamie Waupaca Library System in Appleton and College of Menominee Nation in Keshena. While all of our teams have similar broad goals for their summer projects — develop digital preservation workflows, best… Read More…
This is Bethany Huse with the College of Menominee Nation. I am one of the Librarians here at the College, and one of my duties is that I spend half of my days in the Special Collections. Over this summer, we’ve had the privilege to participate in the CCDC project and have Steve Moray, a… Read More…
This session for WiLSWorld 2018, July 24 in Madison, highlighted new tools and innovative approaches Wisconsin libraries are using to create, share and preserve digital collections. Presenters: Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator, Curating Community Digital Collections, WiLS Ann Hanlon, Head, Digital Collections and Initiatives and DH Lab, UW-Milwaukee Randi Ramsden, Program Coordinator, National Digital Newspaper Program,… Read More…
This month, I am thrilled to be visiting each of our Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) host sites for an extended check-in with each team. It’s been almost two months since our immersion workshop in Madison where we introduced CCDC participants to basic digital preservation concepts and best practices, tools and workflows for preservation tasks,… Read More…
I’m Sarah Lange, and I’ll begin my second year at UW-Madison’s iSchool in the fall. This summer I’m working at Rock County Historical Society in Janesville, Wisconsin. I’m developing a digital preservation policy as well as oral history best practices and a workflow for managing the society’s Story Squad collection, which includes story cards, short… Read More…
Hi! I’m Jessica Behrman, and I am about to enter my second year at the Information School at UW-Madison. My practicum this summer is with the La Crosse Public Library Archives, where I’m working on creating workflows for digital photograph ingestion, migrating existing content into new digital collections, and implementing quality control measures going forward…. Read More…
Hello, I’m Kristina Warner! I am starting my second year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the Information School specializing in archival management. This summer I am working with the Outagamie Waupaca Library System in Appleton, Wisconsin. The biggest projects that we are working on are creating a digital preservation policy, workflow and data management… Read More…
My name is Cameron Fontaine and I am a UW-Milwaukee MLIS student working with the Manitowoc County Historical Society through the CCDC program. The Manitowoc County Historical Society is a gorgeous site comprised of historic buildings and artifacts which serve as a sort of living museum, the Pinecrest Historical Village. They host scores of school… Read More…
My name is Steve Moray and I am a graduate student at UW-Milwaukee in a coordinated MA History/MLIS degree program concentrating in archives. I am working with the College of Menominee Nation Library in Keshena, Wisconsin to help preserve their digital collections. It’s still early on in the process, but so far I have organized… Read More…
Hello! I’m Jodi Kiffmeyer, a student at UW-Madison’s iSchool. Last semester I rediscovered a passion for family and community history while taking a genealogy course at the iSchool. Unfortunately, I also discovered that it’s not always easy to find historical information online when your family comes from rural northern Wisconsin, as mine does. That’s one… Read More…
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